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altar. Jt is a kind of pagoda, like the postal card I 
sent you of it, of blue, green and gold iridescent 
poreelain tiles. It is most beautiful. We then went to 
a Llama temple and this was also immensely interest- 
ing. It is just like the Llama temples in Thibet. A 
service was just over when we arrived, and we saw all 
the monks in their long flowing yellow robes. The 
court yard of the temple had two huge bronze incense 
burners, or rather urns, eight feet high, with most elab- 
orate patterns and inscriptions on them; near these 
were two huge bronze lions on high pedestals. 
The temple was filled with burning incense 
from in front of a statue of the coming Budd- 
ha; this statue is seventy-two feet high; the walls are 
covered with very old mosaic silk with the lfe of 
Buddha represented on it. We walked on the walls 
of the city. We went to the Yellow Temple and the 
Temple of Ten Thousand Buddhas, the Observatory, 
Examination Hall, Temple of Agriculture, the Hall of 
Classies and, in fact, to everything else, with the ex- 
ception of the Forbidden City, which of course no one 
is permitted to do. We have some first class photo- 
graphs and I can tell you about Pekin better while 
looking at these than writing it on paper to you. A 
Mr. Tennant, whom we met in Woo Chow, has come 
here to live; he is in the imperial customs and yester- 
day evening he very kindly asked us to dine with 
him at the Customs hall. He had a German and Aus- 
trian there too to meet us and the latter was very nice. 
He has been making a collection of old embroideries, 
drawn work and Chinese paintings on silk and rice 
paper. The paintings were well done; they are of 
Chinese life, men, women, emperors, processions, etc., 
